Global Citizenship Summer School
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For more detailed information please see the Global Citizenship Summer School 2012 draft syllabus pdf.
Course themes
London
- Globalization and Citizenship
- The Global Financial Crisis
- Citizenship, Activism and the Arab Revolts
- Culture and Identity
- Climate Change
- Sustainability
- Global Ethics
- International Intervention
Utrecht
- Transnational Television Cultures in Europe (Television)
- European Heritage Sites as Sites of Memory (Museums)
- European History and Ethnic Differentiation: The Holocaust (Film)
- Ethnicity, gender and media in everyday life / (Photography)
- Identity, Globalisation and Digital Media (Digital Media)
Excursions
A number of excursions are built into the structure of the summer school course.
In London we will go to:
In Utrecht we will go to:
- The Hague
- The Anne Frank House (Amsterdam)
- Museum Maluku
Course tutors
Dr Kaja Shonick | Dr Shonick teaches on and coordinates the Global Citizenship Summer School. Prior to joining City, Kaja worked for the Salzburg Global Seminar and the University of Washington, Seattle. She received her PhD in History from the University of Washington, Seattle, and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on migrations and minority communities in Europe. At present she is working on a project in conjunction with the Salzburg Global Seminar on the relationship between Holocaust education, human rights education, and genocide prevention. She has lived in the Germany, Austria, the United States, and the UK.
Professor Rosemary Hollis | From 1995 to 2005 Professor Hollis was Head of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House, having spent five years in a similar post at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies. During the 1980s she was a lecturer in Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University in Washington, DC, where she gained a PhD in Political Science. She also holds a BA in History and an MA in War Studies from the King's College, University of London.